The cieling in cold room leads onto of my front porch lol..that's why I would have to go through the top of the wall..
6 or 8" fan
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Yes the air would be blowing between a cieling and a floor
Beezcheeze
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I started to do that when I first got going with my setup and I'm glad I changed it. I think you'll be happier in the long run if you just cut a hole in the celing of Exaust room as close to cupboard area as possible. That room will definitly be a lot warmer than any other in the house. But maybe that's ok
Beezcheeze
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Sucks you gotta go through concrete that's not gonna be fun
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Mines gettin close
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Well now u got me worried about mold..lol. Wouldn't it be the same as blowing it in any room and mixing with the cold ac air ? ...gawd idk what to do lol
Beezcheeze
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No it wouldn't be the same. Does the room your exausting above have an ac return vent in it? If so the central ac would suck in a lot of the moisture and hot air and spread it evenly throughout the house. I had to add a return vent upstairs of my home for my setup. You'll be fine if you just blow it into the Exaust room through a normal ac vent. No one will know. I definitly would be worried about mold unless you change it. It's a large grow area of you get that thing full of plants it'll be a lot of moist air trapped and warm. Perfext for mold. All yor short of is one hole in the celing. Add that to your design and should be great
I explained it step by step with pics lmao.. My laundry room is outside the cellar..I can go above the one wall in between upstairs floor and downstairs cieling or just right into the laundry room..but that would make that area warm ? Where my cool intake is coming in at ten degree less ?
Beezcheeze
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Yea I saw your pics and explanation and read them several times ... Lmao. Your Intake is on the door of your grow room and the Exaust will be running in the celing of the room next to the Intake room. The rooms aren't openly connected right? Exausting into one room and pulling from another it would seem. I don't quite get why the laughing. I completely understand what you are planning to do. I'm just suggesting that that setup might cause mold. I still don't see how exausting into the room in the right of the picture would make the intake room just ouside the grow area get hot. Still haven't answered if there is an air return in the Exaust room. No matter how much someone explains somethig and posts pictures etc.. It's still hard to see exactly what your trying to do and what all variables are involved. I'm just suggesting what I would try to do with all the info I understand about your setup.
Beezcheeze
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Because ventallation was my biggest problem setting up.
I didn't mean any offense .
God dam I just wish u could see it better haha..
This is a pic before I put up the drywall..the joists.. U can see the electrical panel on the right where door is swung open.
Above the joists is wood.. Cause that's the upstairs flooring.
To the left of the picture is a wall...through the left corner wall is my laundry room with a door for the cold cellar.
So like I said the ducting would be far left of this picture ON top of the drywall that is there now..the ducting would run about 2-4 feet from the left corner of the pic on top of the drywall.
And this is it drywalled at the panel
I just don't want mold..the air will blow across the drywall toward the panel..will it even make it as far as the panel? Idk lmao
God dam I just wish u could see it better haha..
This is a pic before I put up the drywall..the joists.. U can see the electrical panel on the right where door is swung open.
Above the joists is wood.. Cause that's the upstairs flooring.
To the left of the picture is a wall...through the left corner wall is my laundry room with a door for the cold cellar.
So like I said the ducting would be far left of this picture ON top of the drywall that is there now..the ducting would run about 2-4 feet from the left corner of the pic on top of the drywall.
And this is it drywalled at the panel
I just don't want mold..the air will blow across the drywall toward the panel..will it even make it as far as the panel? Idk lmao
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670420grower
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Is that your room bruddah?
Beezcheeze
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Lol ok gotcha. Yea even seeing things better is tough. Words get misinterpreted. I'm stoned as shit and a little fuzzy from a brain injury. Seeing things in person is the only way to really get it lol. The only place for all that air to go is through whatever open gaps are in between your floor upstsirs and your celing downstairs. Which seems to me is going to create some backpressure and not vent as much air as it would just blowing into a room. On top of that the risk for mold is too high for me and I wouldn't do it. I don't think there's any more misunderstandings between us I comprehend the above^^ and I still don't see why you could not just cut a hole in the celing near the electrical panel and vent into that room. Close the door real good and the intake to the grow area shouldn't see any heat from that Exaust. Right?
Beezcheeze
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That might make the Exaust room a little warm. You could always crack the window to let some heat out if so. Or put a window unit in that rooms window to keep it cooled off if you need to. unless that exausted air is getting recycled in that room by being sucked through an ac return vent occasionally then that hot air isn't going anywhere. Idk take what you want and ignore what you don't lol. Keep it simple stupid someone told me. I tend to drift away from that.^ if there is miraculously a floor ac vent to upstairs somewhere near that electrical panel area then you could hook your grow Exaust to that vent and Exaust upstairs. Would be best if it was near an ac return. You could hook that Exaust duct directly up to your return box(cut a hole in the sheet metal box). There would constantly be air blowing through your ac system whether it's running or not. Which would blow air across the thawing coils, adding humidity to your home. Domt thjnk by much tho in your case. My exausyed air goes from upstsirs where the flower tents are to downstairs. And my ac picks it up in the return and it is recycled. I plug up my ac vents upstsirs during winter and will open them up during summer.
Ah ok glad we are on the same page now haha ..thx bro.
As to why I don't want to cut s whole in the ceiling because I just renovated the whole room lol..its.going to be my living area..
Ok so between floor joists is a no go..
Now the room outside the grow room sits around 70..and I'm sure it'll stay there once summer comes with the ac on..
U said plug the vent into a duct for my furnace ? There's actually one right beside where I was wanting to run it across the cieling.
Its a vent that goes to upstairs.. But don't really want heat blowing into my living room during the summer lol...FAWK.. What about blowing it into the laubdry room itself..sake place my intake is coming from..??? Lol..fml
Na bro living area on other side of wall haha
Beezcheeze
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I gotcha. Same exact feelings i had about my ventallation. Same situation. You could tap into that return air box and yes it will blow warm air into your home which will make your ac run more often but your heat less often.. Maybe... Might cost you a little more electric. If you Exaust into the same room you intake from you might want to add an extra ac duct to that room. (Was easy to do to my home might be harder for yours) If you still have problems with heat is there a window in that room outside the grow for a window ac unit. If so you could have a sealed grow! Well kinda I mean you'd have a controlled environment. Set that window unit to whatever temp keeps your grow room chillin. Then you could have a humidifier/dehumidifier in your grow room and all elements would be controlled Just have to add co2.
Beezcheeze
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Don't mean to add more thoughts to the matter. I just can't wait till the day comes I can use co2. I think simplest is just exausting outside the grow room with the 8" fan/filter inside the grow room and see if your temps will stay under 82
Beezcheeze
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Ventallation is a bitch if you don't want to blow the hot air outside